Maggie Beck
(Photographer)

Maggie Beck is the senior photographer at The Union Democrat. She started working for the newspaper in July 2007. Maggie can be seen at a plethora of local events from graduations, to story times, disasters and sporting events. She enjoys getting to meet new people and hearing their stories. Maggie drives between 1,100 and 1,700 miles a month between Tuolumne and Calaveras counties for photo assignments. Maggie attended Sierra Waldorf School and Sonora High School. She is the daughter of Tom and Ellen Beck of Sonora. Maggie is the proud mother of Julian, who attends Sierra Waldorf School and plays youth football and baseball. In Maggie's free time, she enjoys kayaking, making silly home movies with her son, board games and collecting free retro furniture. Since adopting two kittens, she is quickly becoming the crazy cat lady.

Phone: 209-588-4543

Stories by Maggie Beck

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Thursday marked the first time students from first through eighth grades at Tenaya Elementary School in Groveland gathered in the cafeteria for an assembly. “We believe that kindness is so important that we wanted to gather all our students together at the same time to
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Every day is different. That’s what I enjoy most about my job, the diversity of each day. The fact that I have no idea what’s going to happen, where I’m going to get sent, or who I’m going to meet next keeps me interested. I
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Every year at Christmas the Tuolumne County Aquatics Master swimmers (TCAM) donates items for neighbors in need. This year they collected toilet paper for Interfaith and nonperishable food items for the Mother Lode Food Project which are delivered to ATCAA Food Bank. ATCAA Food Bank
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More than 120 packages wrapped in festive holiday paper spill out from beneath a white Christmas tree at Grandma’s House in Columbia. The packages, wrapped by high school and college students and a few adults, contain a pair of socks and pajamas for children in
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Santa Claus is coming to Sonora. He made a brief appearance in the annual Downtown Sonora Christmas Parade on Nov. 24 and will return Saturday for a few activities at downtown stores and for two weeks at his workshop in Coffill Park. Santa will be
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